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Issue Details

Issue	#651
Published	September 1955
Cover Price	0.10 USD
Pages	36
Editing	?
Notes	Indicia title is "Luke Short's KING COLT, No. 651." Code number is K.C.O.S. #651-559. Copyright 1955 by Frederick D. Glidden.

Cover Details - "Luke Short's King Colt"

Characters	Johnny Hendry
Genre	western
Pencils	Don Spaulding ? (painting)
Inks	Don Spaulding ? (painting)
Colors	Don Spaulding ? (painting)
Letters	typeset

1 page promo (ad from the publisher) "A Pledge to Parents"

Letters	typeset
Notes	Inside front cover; black and white. Full page reproduction of Dell's "A Pledge to Parents."

33 page story "King Colt"

Characters	Johnny Hendry; Hank Bender; Turk Hebron; Bailey Blue (villain); Major Fitz (villain)
Synopsis	An old prospector fakes his death after an ambush attempt, which sets in motion a complex struggle for control of Cosmos County as cattleman Major Fitz and corrupt sheriff Baily Blue face off against former deputy Johnny Hendry and his two sidekicks.
Genre	western
Script	Luke Short (original story); ? (comic adaptation)
Pencils	Everett Raymond Kinstler
Inks	Everett Raymond Kinstler
Notes	Story continues on the inside back cover in black and white and concludes on the back cover in color. Adapted from the 1937 novel "King Colt" by Luke Short. Pencils and inks credits for this sequence from Alberto Becattini (May 14, 2007)

Half page Zane Grey's Stories of the West promo (ad from the publisher) "He Was After A Valley Of Wild Horses..."

Genre	western
Letters	typeset
Notes	Promo for Dell's Zane Grey's Stories of the West #27. Line-drawn version of the painted cover is depicted. Promo comes at bottom of last interior page, in the middle of the story.